Ben Spatz

Lecturer, University of Huddersfield

Huddersfield, UK

  • About

    Ben Spatz is Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research (Routledge, 2015) as well as works in scholarly and artistic journals. Ben holds a PhD from the City University of New York and was formerly a performer with Gardzienice Theatre Association and a Fulbright Fellow at the Grotowski Institute. He has performed and presented work at various venues and festivals in New York City. Ben’s theoretical work investigates embodied practices in physical culture, performing arts, and everyday life; his current embodied research explores traditional Jewish paraliturgical songs through post-Grotowskian song-action.

  • Professional activities

    research, performing, directing, editing, teaching, performer training, scholarly writing

  • Areas of interest

    theatre & performance studies, performer training, acting theory, dance, embodied practice, embodied research, somatic bodywork, martial arts, critical theories, contemporary philosophy, cognitive studies, phenomenology, university studies, queer studies, gender studies, critical race studies, ritual, sociology of knowledge, historical epistemology

  • Working languages

    English

Contact

  • E-mail

    b.spatz@hud.ac.uk

  • Phone

    +44 (0)1484 478421

  • Website

    www.urbanresearchtheater.com

Mailing address

  • Department of Drama
    University of Huddersfield
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  • City

    Huddersfield

  • Postcode

    HD1 3DH

  • Country

    UK

Featured Work

<p>What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research</p>

Book

Closed Peer Reviewed

What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research

by Ben Spatz

  • Keywords

    theatre & performance studies martial arts dance performer training ritual gender studies critical theories acting theory phenomenology embodied practice embodied research somatic bodywork contemporary philosophy cognitive studies queer studies critical race studies sociology of knowledge historical epistemology epistemology of practice
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<p>Judaica: Research in Song-Action</p>

Research Project

Closed

Judaica: Research in Song-Action

by Urban Research Theater (USA) and The Centre for Psychophysical Performance Research (UK)

  • Keywords

    Jerzy Grotowski traditional songs embodied research practice research Judaism
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Blogs

<p>International Platform for Performer Training</p>

Blog post

Open Access

International Platform for Performer Training

Conference, Wrocław 2016

  • Keywords

    performer training psychophysical training theatre performance acting tradition martial arts kalarippayattu Asian performance Jerzy Grotowski Elsa Gindler bharatanatyam Finnish theatre Jacques Lecoq BodyConstitution traditional songs education IPPT
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Connections

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Phillip B. Zarrilli

Artistic Director, The Llanarth Group

Llanarth, UK

  • Working languages

    English

  • Professional activities

    directing, performing, teaching, practice-led research, performer training

  • Areas of interest

    acting, directing, theatre, performance, cross-cultural performance, psychophysical acting, Asian theatre, kalarippayattu, yoga, taiquiquan, kathakali, martial arts, collective creation, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, Ōta Shōgo, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Jerzy Grotowski, theatre & performance studies, interculturalism, theatre history
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Jarosław Fret

Director, Grotowski Institute

Wrocław, Poland

  • Working languages

    Polish, English

  • Professional activities

    directing, cultural management

  • Areas of interest

    theatre, directing, acting, Jerzy Grotowski, musicality, paratheatre
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Paul Allain

Professor, University of Kent

Canterbury, UK

  • Working languages

    English, Polish, French, Italian

  • Professional activities

    research, teaching, research supervision, directing, performer training, producing

  • Areas of interest

    theatre & performance studies, acting, directing, performer training, Tadashi Suzuki, Polish theatre, Russian theatre, Asian theatre, Jerzy Grotowski, Gardzienice, Andrei Droznin, Laboratory Theatre, Studium Teatralne, collaborative theatre, East European theatre, musicality, Peter Brook, Eugenio Barba, Richard Schechner, cross-cultural performance
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Grzegorz Ziółkowski

Professor, Katedra Dramatu, Teatru i Widowisk

Poznań, Poland

  • Working languages

    Polish, English

  • Professional activities

    research, teaching, directing, performer training, translating

  • Areas of interest

    acting techniques, theatre anthropology, interculturalism, laboratory theatres, European theatre, Asian theatre, cultural performance
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Grotowski Institute

cultural centre, archive, publisher, studio, performance venue

Wrocław, Poland

  • Working languages

    Polish, English, French, Italian

  • Professional activities

    performances, seminars, publishing, research

  • Areas of interest

    Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, theatre, performance
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Affiliations

  • University of Huddersfield, UK

    Lecturer (drama, theatre, performance)

  • Urban Research Theater, USA

    Artistic Director (co-founder)

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